The Secundus Papyrus
- 337pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Getorius et le Mystère d'Arcadie Séries
Cette série transporte les lecteurs dans le paysage tumultueux de l'Italie du Ve siècle, se concentrant sur un couple marié naviguant dans des circonstances extraordinaires. Suivez leurs vies entrelacées alors qu'ils sont confrontés aux machinations politiques et aux drames personnels de l'époque. C'est un mélange captivant de fiction historique et de récit axé sur les personnages, offrant une fenêtre sur un moment crucial de l'histoire.
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The Cybelene Conspiracy
- 316pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Surgeon Getorius Asterius, his wife Arcadia, the eunuch archpriest of a pagan fertility cult, the female head of a heretical Arian church, and an ambitious senator in league with a Chinese merchant: these are the prime movers in this mystery set in Ravenna, Italy, in A.D. 440. When Getorius is summoned to examine the castrated body of a youth found by Thecla in her Arian church, who is the sobbing “Vestal Virgin” nearby? Is there any connection between this crime and the fact that a senator is smuggling counterfeit Western coins to the Eastern Empire, and contraband Chinese products back to Ravenna? A coded message leads to a secret tunnel and the sinister temple of Cybele, whose devotees are self-mutilated eunuchs. In a stunning climax, the conspirators try to escape Ravenna, planning to sell their products in Egypt, but failing to recognize the deadly nature of what they are carrying…